Engineering Manager

**Engineering Manager - **Ecosystem Experiences**:
**About WooliesX
At WooliesX, our people believe in creating better everyday experiences for our community.

With 1,800+ team members, multiple practices and over 100 chapters, there’s a home for everyone here. Whether your interests lie in data driven insights and product engineering, digital media, ecom, operations, customer advocacy, commercial, agile or more, you can find your squad across all kinds of capabilities.

Our squads live their “one day”, every day. We work on Australia’s most innovative tech, design, engineering and more to transform the way that millions of Australians live and shop. Physically, you can find us in Surry Hills, but virtually, we can be anywhere.

Our culture combines the support, care and freedom that comes with being part of the Woolworths Group. We are an agile team embracing diversity of thought and positive change. We thrive on pragmatism, mutual respect, care, curiosity, openness, and a proactive attitude. As a team we continually seek ways to support and learn from each other.

**The Position**

You will be coming on board to lead development teams across many of our “Ecosystem Experiences” including Search, Single-Sign-On, Navigation, Homepage and Content Management platforms.You will partner with product, experience, and architecture teams to drive our products’ direction and devise an agile delivery plan to get there. You will be responsible for working collaboratively with technology leads from multiple squads, providing strategic thinking and leadership to empower these teams to achieve their goals.

**Further, responsibilities include
- Devise tech strategy aligned with the business strategy and partner with Tribe and Product Leads to execute the tech strategy effectively.
- Build, showcase and share technology best practices and evangelise the engineering practice across the business.
- Work closely with stakeholders to propose a resourcing strategy and assist in recruiting, hiring and onboarding top talent.
- Effectively manage expectations and proactively resolving structural, cultural, process and organisational issues both within and outside of the tribe
- Actively monitor progress, mitigating risks and dependencies and providing updates to the executive team
- Work collaboratively with Technology Leads for all squads to ensure that they are all following best practices for coding.
- Work with individual technology members to get a deep understanding of technology issues and help lean in and remove these blockers.
- Responsible for coaching/mentoring and providing line management duties for a chapter of 8-10 direct reports.

**About you
- You are a leader with demonstrated experience in managing and leading multidisciplinary engineering teams with a focus on business results, not output
- You are a passionate problem-solver, a forward-thinker who can grow, change, challenge and can support and manage escalated technical challenges.
- You have strong organisational and communication skills with demonstrated ability to engage, influence and negotiate at all levels with a wide range of stakeholders.
- You are naturally curious and empathetic, who thinks differently and thinks big. You deal with complexity by collaborating with colleagues, listening to customers, testing ideas and continuously learning. You take authorship for what you create.
- You get agile and have a strong experience in agile delivery, ability to balance rapid iteration speed with continually improving the overall stability, scalability, security and modularity of the product.

**What’s in it for you?
- An attractive remuneration package
- Added benefits - Including staff discounts, flexible working, social club and much more (Site dependant)
- Tech options - Woolworths is the largest employer of Google Apps in Australia, are early adopters of Agile and have BYOD options too
- Work variety - The opportunity to work on multiple brands and sizeable initiatives
- Training and Education - We pride ourselves in helping you realise your potential and allow you to be innovative
- An exciting career - As our business grows, so do the opportunities for our people.

**Grow with the Group
As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do.

We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage. We are proud to be recognised as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion and as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

As our Group continues to evolve, innovate and support our communities, we encourage our team members to do the same with their own careers, by providing ongoing opportunities to grow and make a real difference.

We value flexib